When I told my friends, family, and colleagues about this trip they typically commented that this would be a very memorable vacation. I corrected them that this was a pilgrimage but I honestly wasn’t sure what it meant. On Day…
Today I wandered the Old City in all its tragic grandeur, “where history and eternity meet.” The eclectic jumble: good Moslems in hijabs going about their business; raucous Christian pilgrim groups along the Via Dolorosa; Christian monks in their brown…
It’s a great feeling to be heading into our second night at St. George’s College in Jerusalem looking back on so many new experiences. Our clothes are unpacked, our money is exchanged, we’re remembering not to flush the toilet paper,…
Tomorrow, March 7, a group of pilgrims from Holy Comforter are making their way from Vienna, VA to East Jerusalem in Israel/Palestine. We will be embarking on a course called The Footsteps of Jesus offered by St. George’s College, the…